About the Authors

Jiajia Ban

Contributed equally to this work with: Jiajia Ban, Yuexiu Hu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Writing – original draft

Current Address: School of Nursing, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, 138 Xianlin Avenue, Qixia District, Nanjing 210023, Jiangsu Province, China; Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, 321 Zhongshan Road, Gulou District, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

Affiliations School of Nursing, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Yuexiu Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Jiajia Ban, Yuexiu Hu

Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Current Address: Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, 321 Zhongshan Road, Gulou District, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Hong Huang

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Current Address: School of Nursing, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, 138 Xianlin Avenue, Qixia District, Nanjing 210023, Jiangsu Province, China; Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, 321 Zhongshan Road, Gulou District, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations School of Nursing, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Ping Zhang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Current Address: Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, 321 Zhongshan Road, Gulou District, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Shan Dong

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Current Address: Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, 321 Zhongshan Road, Gulou District, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Yujie Zhou

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Current Address: Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, 321 Zhongshan Road, Gulou District, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Day Chemotherapy Ward,Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Ling Yuan

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

yuanling@njglyy.com (LY); sumaomao66@163.com (YS)

Current Address: Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, 321 Zhongshan Road, Gulou District, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

Affiliation Department of Nursing, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Yunyan Su

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

Current Address: Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, 321 Zhongshan Road, Gulou District, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.